[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
But, does her boyfriend look like a bitch?[/quote]
he looked a lot like this guy
I would say there is some merit in this post as far as how people interact with you. I’ve gained around 60 pounds over the years… and how people treated me at 130 compared to 190 really is different. I’m not a jacked, bulked up bodybuilder by any means. But my overall stature definitely seems to present a different presence at different weights. I couldn’t imagine for really big guys. Even in a gym. I dropped back down to 160 a couple years ago and I even noticed it then. Gained back 30 more pounds and bam, I’m like a different person to some people.
It reminds me of a story I read about a woman who was a very good competitive powerlifter. She later battled cancer, got through it and started lifting again. She talked about how people treated her like she didn’t know what she was doing just based on her physical appearance-- not knowing that years before she was competiting in meets and probably knew more about training than anyone in that gym. That story has always resonated with me, so I try to never judge people in the gym (or out) just because you never what they’ve done and what they have been through in the past.
Edgy if they are intimidated then that’s on them, maybe they need to act a little bigger. Did you ask her how big her (insert any body part here) is?
[quote]therajraj wrote:
1)Random women â??bumpâ?? into you
2)Girls with boyfriends give you naughty looks
3)Men challenge you
4)People see you as a threat
5)You get unjustly classified as a douche bag
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I didn’t get #1, but today I had three girls lock eyes with me and smile… I guess that counts?
2. I’ve been told I am handsome by chicks that have boyfriends, and obvious looks (and even told she would date me if she was single).
3. Far too often. I even get the occasional fight request.
4. My friend is intimidated by me. 
5. Nope, never happened. I am a soft spoken guy.
Why did you make this thread though?
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m personally sick and tired of people projecting their insecurities and societal correctness on others.
I love to lift. I love being sore. I love feeling like my lungs are about to explode when I do my sprints. I love when I see fellow iron brothers at the gym and getting that nod even if I don’t really know them. Pretty tired of this pussified society to try meatless- Mondays that we have here locally.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m personally sick and tired of people projecting their insecurities and societal correctness on others.
I love to lift. I love being sore. I love feeling like my lungs are about to explode when I do my sprints. I love when I see fellow iron brothers at the gym and getting that nod even if I don’t really know them. Pretty tired of this pussified society to try meatless- Mondays that we have here locally. [/quote]
Meatless Monday?? What is the world coming to?!
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Pretty tired of this pussified society to try meatless- Mondays that we have here locally. [/quote]
would you mind elaborating on this?
[quote]Edgy wrote:
bump
I was at some mandatory marketing training last month, and the facilitator (who was some high level marketing chickie) told me that I was being too aggressive, and that by my very presence i was too intimidating during one of our mock encounters.
I asked the best way to counter this issue.
She said… and i quote…
“try your best to look smaller”
she said this in front of the group, then later, after we were breaking up for the day, she came up to me, grabbed my arms, then asked me how big my arms were.
she looked like this chick~[/quote]
Did you pillage her…village? haha
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
1)Random women �¢??bump�¢?? into you
2)Girls with boyfriends give you naughty looks
3)Men challenge you
4)People see you as a threat
5)You get unjustly classified as a douche bag
[/quote]
When I was at my “most jacked” I was playing on the front row of a very competitive rugby team and was lifting some serious weight. When I walked into a bar, as I walked through the crowd, people parted like the red fucking sea. At that time, I was 27 and around 250 ish and in rugby shape. Now that I’m 40 and down to 200 ish, I seem get the elbow and the occasional body checks. If they only knew how close to death they were… LOL
I always get the looks from the ladies - BF or no BF, and I’m too old be classified as a douche bag.
As far as looking threatening goes, it’s like a tool in a tool box. I can turn it on when I have to.
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I was out with my wife a few years ago and she tells me that people get out of my way. Then I started noticing it too. I was 240 lbs at the time, now I’m running a little rich at 250 and am still lifting 3X a week. Maybe it’s the tattoos and serial killer look.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m personally sick and tired of people projecting their insecurities and societal correctness on others.
I love to lift. I love being sore. I love feeling like my lungs are about to explode when I do my sprints. I love when I see fellow iron brothers at the gym and getting that nod even if I don’t really know them. Pretty tired of this pussified society to try meatless- Mondays that we have here locally. [/quote]
Meatless Monday?? What is the world coming to?![/quote]
I hereby pledge to eat twice as much meat on Mondays to help offset the “going to hell in a handbasket world” in which we find ourselves.
Come and join me! Let us devour the carcasses of tasty animals with fervor![/quote]
Push.
My favourite restaurant here is a yakiniku joint called Gyu-kaku. For thirty dollars you can have as much barbecued meat as you can eat. For an extra ten dollars you can wash it down with as much beer or other alcoholic beverages as you can drink.
And the waitresses are hot.
When you come, we must go there… preferably on a Tuesday night, for then it will be Mundane Meatless Monday in Max’s neck of the woods.
People are worried about my diet.
When I travel for work, when we’re trying to figure out lunch/dinner plans, my clients and colleagues always say “I don’t care, but D needs meat”.
[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m personally sick and tired of people projecting their insecurities and societal correctness on others.
I love to lift. I love being sore. I love feeling like my lungs are about to explode when I do my sprints. I love when I see fellow iron brothers at the gym and getting that nod even if I don’t really know them. Pretty tired of this pussified society to try meatless- Mondays that we have here locally. [/quote]
Meatless Monday?? What is the world coming to?![/quote]
They started that shit at my son’s elementary school two years ago. So on Mondays I always packed him an ALL meat lunch (Bacon, jerkey, ham slices, cut up hot dogs, cracklins, chicken tenders, salami and cheese, etc…) he loved it. It got to the point where other kids asked to share some of his lunch. So I was always sure to pack him a little extra - gotta fight the good fight on every front you can! LOL
[quote]beachguy498 wrote:
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
1)Random women �?�¢??bump�?�¢?? into you
2)Girls with boyfriends give you naughty looks
3)Men challenge you
4)People see you as a threat
5)You get unjustly classified as a douche bag
[/quote]
When I was at my “most jacked” I was playing on the front row of a very competitive rugby team and was lifting some serious weight. When I walked into a bar, as I walked through the crowd, people parted like the red fucking sea. At that time, I was 27 and around 250 ish and in rugby shape. Now that I’m 40 and down to 200 ish, I seem get the elbow and the occasional body checks. If they only knew how close to death they were… LOL
I always get the looks from the ladies - BF or no BF, and I’m too old be classified as a douche bag.
As far as looking threatening goes, it’s like a tool in a tool box. I can turn it on when I have to.
[/quote]
I was out with my wife a few years ago and she tells me that people get out of my way. Then I started noticing it too. I was 240 lbs at the time, now I’m running a little rich at 250 and am still lifting 3X a week. Maybe it’s the tattoos and serial killer look.
[/quote]
I fluctuate between 235 and 245 at 5’11". My wife pointed out the same thing to me a few weeks ago. She thinks its awesome when we go places and people just move out of our way. She likes that her friends make comments to her about how good I am looking and how they wish their husbands would get into better shape. She also thinks it cool, and a little funny, that when we are out places I receive and return the “bro nod” with guys I recognize to be fellow lifters. We dont know each other. We may never talk to each other. But the nod says all that needs to be said.
Good bump Edgy; I had forgotten about this thread, but I have been a victim of “bigism”. I had a guy come to my office for care; I examined him and laid out a plan; he agreed but never followed up. That happens from time to time for whatever reason, so I didn’t think too much about it. But a couple weeks later his wife told my wife what actually happened (they worked together, and we went to the same church).
He sat behind us in church and supposedly got upset about my size (he specifically mentioned the thickness of my neck) and worried about such a “big” guy manipulating his neck. The thing I wonder about is how many other people feel this way, but I just never hear about it. Also, it is a sad comment about society that I am considered “big”; I do lift, but I am more fat than jacked.
[quote]OldOgre wrote:
We dont know each other. We may never talk to each other. But the nod says all that needs to be said. [/quote]
“Meet me in the bathroom later”…
O_O
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m personally sick and tired of people projecting their insecurities and societal correctness on others.
I love to lift. I love being sore. I love feeling like my lungs are about to explode when I do my sprints. I love when I see fellow iron brothers at the gym and getting that nod even if I don’t really know them. Pretty tired of this pussified society to try meatless- Mondays that we have here locally. [/quote]
Meatless Monday?? What is the world coming to?![/quote]
I hereby pledge to eat twice as much meat on Mondays to help offset the “going to hell in a handbasket world” in which we find ourselves.
Come and join me! Let us devour the carcasses of tasty animals with fervor![/quote]
Push.
My favourite restaurant here is a yakiniku joint called Gyu-kaku. For thirty dollars you can have as much barbecued meat as you can eat. For an extra ten dollars you can wash it down with as much beer or other alcoholic beverages as you can drink.
And the waitresses are hot.
When you come, we must go there… preferably on a Tuesday night, for then it will be Mundane Meatless Monday in Max’s neck of the woods.[/quote]
It’s a deal.
BTW, surely you’ve been to a good Brazilian BBQ here in the states, right?
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Not in the states. In Bali, of all places.
I went to Gyu-kaku again last night to celebrate my birthday. This time I kept track of everything I ordered and consumed, and it would make a lettuce-eating PETA member quiver with fear and loathing.
Sixty-three pieces of meat altogether, sixty of those being, admittedly, chunks that qualify as “bite sized” depending on how big a mouth you have. The other three were miniature steaks, meant to be grilled and cut into pieces, then dipped in melted butter.
The steaks were each about the size of the fabled “deck of cards” that the pussies at the AMA and American Cancer Society insist is all the meat anyone should ever eat in a single “serving”.
I did not eat a deck of cards, I ate the entire fucking casino.
And the waitresses are so pretty. If there was a religion that could guarantee that in my afterlife, I would be able to eat grilled meat and have happy sexytimes with the girls of Gyu-kaku for all eternity, I would sign up in a minute.